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I feel like that, among Perl startups, DuckDuckGo is the elephant in the room these days.
Their introduction to Perl and documentation for it is really quite handy for someone coming from another language. I wrote a plugin in Perl without any previous knowledge of it and it only took an evening. And as it turns out I quite like Perl now.
I've been a Perl fan for years and I really enjoyed using the language in my personal projects (and in a couple of professional projects, it was "the secret ingredient"), but I couldn't fight all the prejudices surrounding Perl; so I finally gave up and learnt Python hoping to find a quality job as software developer. It worked out pretty well and I found a great job. I love doing Python, the community and the cultur…
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Based on what he posted, either he's doing an extremely superficial comparison or he's done a proper one and realised there is actually not a lot in it when talking about modern languages. Fair enough, he wants to continue to use Perl because it's familiar and there aren't really massive advantages to using the other languages, that's a fair point, but state that as opposed to having a tone that suggests Perl is a be…
There does seem to be a certain amount of truth to the "oh, you kids, we were doing that in Perl ten years ago" attitude I occasionally run into. (Sort of like Lispers, except they invented whatever cool feature you think is new back in 1958.) But it's hard to justify switching from something else to Perl, and indeed I think your rephrasing -- "it's familiar and there aren't really massive advantages to using the oth…
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But he used perl to build some thing huge. Just wondering if that huge thing would have run as smooth in python as in perl?
I used to love Perl as well, it is amazing for text processing and at the time was the silver tape of Internet. It is pleasant to write, but I can't say the same for reading: sometimes it is hard to understand my own Perl code after untouched for a few months. In this regard, my experience is the same: Python is more readable and easy to maintain. There's more than one way to do it (TMTOWTDI or TIMTOWTDI, pronounced…
I've been a Perl fan for years and I really enjoyed using the language in my personal projects (and in a couple of professional projects, it was "the secret ingredient"), but I couldn't fight all the prejudices surrounding Perl; so I finally gave up and learnt Python hoping to find a quality job as software developer. It worked out pretty well and I found a great job. I love doing Python, the community and the cultur…
HAHA Python is fucking readable. https://github.com/hiddenillusion/AnalyzePE/blob/master/Adob... http://blog.delroth.net/2013/03/escaping-a-python-sandbox-nd...
There's a tendency for people to demand a rational list of reasons for any choice (very academic thinking) but more often than not that results in tacked on reasoning anyways...oh sure I use it because of X,Y,Z while in reality we just picked it because it "seemed cool"
I think people are too scared to regret their choices. Just picking something and "muddling through" tends to be pretty awesome. Sometimes you'll just find out it won't click and then you can pick something else (you should find out pretty quickly because it just won't feel right)
Instead there's often a tendency to read "haha IF ONLY YOU HAD THOUGHT ABOUT THIS BEFORE...FOOL" responses instead of "cool that you jumped into the pool, I hope you learned a lot"
/rambling and ranting
I've been a Perl fan for years and I really enjoyed using the language in my personal projects (and in a couple of professional projects, it was "the secret ingredient"), but I couldn't fight all the prejudices surrounding Perl; so I finally gave up and learnt Python hoping to find a quality job as software developer. It worked out pretty well and I found a great job. I love doing Python, the community and the cultur…
But he used perl to build some thing huge. Just wondering if that huge thing would have run as smooth in python as in perl?
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HAHA Python is fucking readable. https://github.com/hiddenillusion/AnalyzePE/blob/master/Adob... http://blog.delroth.net/2013/03/escaping-a-python-sandbox-nd...
Any language can be made unreadable. I can write terrible Ruby/Perl/PHP/JavaScript, too. Doesn't make them bad languages.
Read https://coosoft.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/the-perl-vs-python-...
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HAHA Python is fucking readable. https://github.com/hiddenillusion/AnalyzePE/blob/master/Adob... http://blog.delroth.net/2013/03/escaping-a-python-sandbox-nd...
Any language can be made unreadable. I can write terrible Ruby/Perl/PHP/JavaScript, too. Doesn't make them bad languages.
Get out Python anal fucker.